The 2013 Avalon is the first car cer­ti­fied to the Qi stan­dard for in-vehicle wire­less charg­ing of cell phones, accord­ing to Toyota.

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Work on the wire­less tech­nol­ogy started in January/February 2012, accord­ing to Nick Sitarski, Senior Engi­neer for Elec­tri­cal Sys­tems, Avalon—too late for the car’s ini­tial release to deal­ers in December.